Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1910 — SIRES AND SONS. [ARTICLE]

SIRES AND SONS.

! The youngest provincial padiamest member in Canada is 8. Hart Green, who was recently elected to represent North Winnipeg. The new member is only twenty-five years old.

After having been in the ministry fifteen tears the Rev. William W. Peck of Wincbendon, Mass., has resigned his pastorate of the Unitarian church to become a clerk in a banking house in Boston.

Secretary of War Dickinson owns the finest country estate in the whole of Tennessee. This is the famous Belle Meade stock farm, just outside Nashville. It is an immense estate, several hundred acres of the finest blue grass land in the country. Carlos Gonzalez of the city of Torreon, state of Coahuila, is prominent among the proverbial land barons for whom Mexico is famed. He owns many haciendas and employs upon them all 5,108 men, that number representing at fewest 15,000 people dependent upon his payrolls. With the recent assumption by Major General Leonard Wood of the duties of chief of staff of the army, two doctors now occupy the two most responsible positions in the army. The other doctor is Major General Fred C. Ainsworth, adjutant general, who entered the army as assistant surgeon in 1888.

Sir Lancelot Stirling was re-elected president of the legislative council of the twentieth parliament of South Australia recently, a position he has occupied for eight years, and Sir Jenkin Coles was re-elected speaker of the house <ff assembly: Sir Jenkins Coles has held that position for twenty years without missing a single sitting.